Creating and develop believable, well-rounded characters is a key aspect of producing a book that readers will lose themselves in. This section of the site contains a list of articles from authors offering hints and tips on the process of creating characters.
I told her to muddy them up a bit, have them doing the odd mean thing. Sleeping with their best friend’s boyfriend, that kind of stuff. ‘But...
What does your character's name say about them? Is it resolutely plain or brimful of associations? As someone who has gone through the...
Now I'm as fond of a dark outlook as the next moderately gloomy person, but there are limits. I also know that unrelenting fictional...
